The Centre For Water Research

Past CWR Seminars and Talks

Special Lecture : Why is it important to study estuaries?

Estuaries are semi-enclosed coastal bodies of water where ocean water is diluted by river discharge. Estuaries are found everywhere throughout the coasts of the world and are typically surrounded by large urban centers. Because of such location, they usually serve as ports, as navigation throughways and as receptacles of human-derived pollutants. On the other hand, estuaries also serve as nurseries for many species of commercial and ecological importance. Therefore, a delicate balance between human and natural activities is needed so that their different uses can be sustainable.

In this lecture, some of the fascinating interactions between organism life cycles and their dependence on water motion will be discussed. In addition, some implications of water motion on pollution will be illustrated. Finally, the potential impacts of global climate change on the health of estuaries and in turn on humans will be presented.

Organiser: Institute of Advanced Studies

Other past talks & seminars ...

• CWR Seminar [18/11/2009] - On the role of the ambient fluid on gravitational granular flow dynamics, Speaker: Carolina Meruane

• CWR Seminar [12/11/2009] - 2050, Speaker: Lord Ron Oxburgh

• CWR Seminar [11/11/2009] - Prostate cancer screening: debates and answers, Speaker: Dr Peter England

• CWR Seminar [04/11/2009] - Long-term studies of California grassland: lessons for restoration, Speaker: Professor Richard Hobbs

• CWR Seminar [28/10/2009] - Building A Better Community: Connecting People and Environment In The Swan Canning River Basin, Speaker: Professor Jorg Imberger

• CWR Seminar [21/10/2009] - Can tea really do that?, Speaker: Professor Colin Binns

• CWR Seminar [14/10/2009] - Developing a groundwater vulnerability classification for soil and regolith materials, Speaker: Professor Martin Fey

• CWR Seminar [07/10/2009] - The Optimal Design of Profitable Renewable Energy Systems; A Hamiltonian Based Approach, Speaker: Dr Franklin Horowitz

• CWR Seminar [30/09/2009] - CIBER: Honeybee research at the University of Western Australia, Speaker: Dr Boris Baer

• CWR Seminar [23/09/2009] - Galactic Archaeology and the New HERMES spectrometer on the Anglo Australian Telescope, Speaker: Professor Ken Freeman

• CWR Seminar [16/09/2009] - Hydrodynamic Stability of Offshore Pipelines, Speaker: Professor Liang Cheng

• CWR Seminar [11/09/2009] - Numerical simulation and large-eddy simulation of mixing and wall-bounded flows, Speaker: Professor Dale Pullin

• CWR Seminar [09/09/2009] - Learning based control of selective withdrawal reservoirs accounting for both quality and quantity targets , Speaker: Professor Rodolfo Soncini-Sessa

• CWR Seminar [02/09/2009] - On the non-local geometry of turbulence, Speaker: Professor Dale Pullin

• [27/08/2009] - short lectures on Large Eddy Simulation #2, Speaker: Professor Dale Pullin

• CWR Seminar [26/08/2009] - Multi-objective optimal design of water quality rehabilitation interventions in lakes and reservoirs, Speaker: Andrea Castelletti

• [25/08/2009] - short lectures on Large Eddy Simulation #1, Speaker: Professor Dale Pullin

• CWR Seminar [19/08/2009] - Community-based adaptation to climate change in coastal Bangladesh: working against the tide., Speaker: Professor Robert Pokrant

• CWR Seminar [12/08/2009] - The role of civil society groups and universities in the politics of a local and global sustainability emrgency , Speaker: Piers Verstegen

• External Seminar [06/08/2009] - Real Time, Self Learning, Adaptive Water Resource Management, Speaker: Professor Jorg Imberger

• CWR Seminar [05/08/2009] - Raising scientific passion in children: an educator's experience, Speaker: Richard Johnson

• CWR Seminar [29/07/2009] - Engineering Solutions for Australia's Offshore Oil and Gas Developments, Speaker: Professor Mark Cassidy

• CWR Seminar [22/07/2009] - The Science of Radio Astronomy and the SKA, Speaker: Professor Lister Staveley-Smith

• CWR Seminar [15/07/2009] - Carbon Neutral in our Landscape, Speaker: Leo Kerr

• CWR Seminar [08/07/2009] - Pulling back the blue curtain: a window onto WA's marine environment, Speaker: Professor Jessica Meeuwig

• CWR Seminar [01/07/2009] - Mechanisms influencing the mixing and transport of multiple inflows into a stratified reservoir: Thomson Reservoir; Australia, Speaker: Dr Clelia Marti

• CWR Seminar [24/06/2009] - Targeting Hot Water in Sedimentary Basins: the Perth Basin case study, Speaker: Professor Klaus Regenauer-Lieb

• CWR Seminar [17/06/2009] - Carbon Trading and The Energy Economy in 2050 , Speaker: Dr Jeff Bremer

• CWR Seminar [10/06/2009] - Hydrodynamics over an estuarine scour pit , Speaker: Professor Arnoldo Valle-Levinson

• CWR Seminar [03/06/2009] - Green Civil Society in China, Speaker: Dr Jie Chen

• Proposal Defence [28/05/2009] - Control of Macrophyte Dominance in Lake Chini, Malaysia, Speaker: Zati Binti Sharip

• CWR Seminar [27/05/2009] - Fluid mechanical challenges in the design and development of modern liquid turbomachines , Speaker: Professor Chris Brennen

• CWR Seminar [20/05/2009] - Recreational fishing: cost or benefit to sustainable aquatic management?, Speaker: Frank Prokop

• CWR Seminar [15/05/2009] - Canyoneering Explorations in North and Central America, Speaker: Professor Chris Brennen

• CWR Seminar [13/05/2009] - Understanding ion channel selectivity and gating (and their application to the desalination of water), Speaker: Dr Ben Corry

• CWR Seminar [06/05/2009] - How can we make communities, healthy by design?, Speaker: Professor Billie Giles-Corti

• CWR Seminar [01/05/2009] - New strategies for managing and forecasting algae bloom occurrences and mitigatig their impact on drinking water intakes in the La Plata River Estuary, Argentina., Speaker: Cristina Silva

• CWR Seminar [29/04/2009] - SAMUEL JOHNSON; a Collector's Reminiscences, Speaker: John Byrne

• CWR Seminar [22/04/2009] - The Importance of Habitat, Speaker: Professor Don Bradshaw

• Research Proposal [21/04/2009] - Genetic Control, Production and Fate of Geosmin Produced by Cyanobacteria in Lakes and Reservoirs, Speaker: Yu Li

• CWR Seminar [15/04/2009] - Non linear and non hydrostatic dynamics of basin scale waves in stratified rotating lakes, Speaker: Alberto de la Fuente

• CWR Seminar [08/04/2009] - The amazing world of bubbles, Speaker: Professor Chris Brennen

• CWR Seminar [01/04/2009] - SymbioticA, an artistic laboratory at the University of Western Australia, Speaker: Oron Catts

• CWR Seminar [25/03/2009] - Amenity migration, rural development and water resources , Speaker: Prof Matthew Tonts

• CWR Seminar [18/03/2009] - Pathogens in drinking water, Speaker: Dr Vicky Whiffin

• CWR Seminar [11/03/2009] - The ecology and management of invasive aquatic plants, Speaker: Dr Shon Schooler

• CWR Seminar [04/03/2009] - Viral-host specificity of cyanobacteria in subtropical lakes of Australia, Speaker: Dr Christin Sawstrom

• CWR Seminar [25/02/2009] - Ecology of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.) in the Swan River, Speaker: Dr Hugh Finn

• CWR Seminar [18/02/2009] - Climate Change: The Realities, The Challenges and The Opportunities, Speaker: Prof Jorg Imberger

• CWR Seminar [11/02/2009] - Forty years of water quality change in Lake Erie: Modelling eutrophication, hypoxia and invasive mussel impacts, Speaker: Dr Leon Boegman

• CWR Seminar [17/12/2008] - Interplay of lake motions and horizontal transport (PhD Thesis Defence), Speaker: Patricia Okely

• CWR Seminar [03/12/2008] - Using inverse methods to estimate velocity field at small scales in aquatic systems, Speaker: Dr Ingrid Hillmer

• CWR Seminar [26/11/2008] - Indigenous people: The duties of government and industry, Speaker: Greg McIntyre

• CWR Seminar [19/11/2008] - What strategies can we use to develop a more rational, less punitive sentencing policy, Speaker: Dr David Indermaur

• CWR Seminar [05/11/2008] - Building capacity in coastal-marine research and management in the western Indian Ocean region, Speaker: Theodore Marguerite (Seychelles Meteorology Services) and Stefano Mazzilli (UNESCO/IOC)

• CWR Seminar [29/10/2008] - The study of historical floods in the context of climate variability and anthropogenic changes: Are there any similarities between the extreme floods of 1914 and 2003 in the Salado River Basin (Argentina)? , Speaker: Dr Carlos Ocampo

• CWR Seminar [22/10/2008] - High resolution oxygen dynamics in a supposedly oligotrophic reservoir, Speaker: Dr Jason Antenucci

• CWR Seminar [15/10/2008] - Predicting acid sulfate soil impacts on water quality: Application to the Lower Lakes of the Murray River, Speaker: Dr Ursula Salmon

• CWR Seminar [08/10/2008] - Methane ebullition in stratified Lake Kinneret: hydroacoustic quantification, temporal and spatial heterogeneity, Speaker: Assoc Prof Ilia Ostrovsky

• CWR Seminar [01/10/2008] - Highly resolved observations and simulations of the ocean response to tropical cyclones, Speaker: Professor Thomas Sanford

• CWR Seminar [24/09/2008] - Life in a changing climate, Speaker: Prof Jorg Imberger

• CWR Seminar [17/09/2008] - Short-circuiting flow-paths within a reservoir: field observations and numerical modelling, Speaker: Dr Clelia Marti

• CWR Seminar [10/09/2008] - Vertical structure of residual currents in the Liverpool Bay region of freshwater influence, Speaker: Dr Florence Verspecht

• CWR Seminar [03/09/2008] - The cycling of Cu & Zn in a river affected by acid-rock drainage: Dissolved & labile concentrations, toxicity, & isotopic fractionation , Speaker: Laurie Balistrieri

• CWR Seminar [27/08/2008] - Physical limnology Canadian style, Speaker: Prof Gregory Lawrence

• CWR Seminar [20/08/2008] - Overview of dietary practice in the development of immune tolerance, Speaker: Dr Meri Tulic

• CWR Seminar [13/08/2008] - Water cycle dynamics in a changing environment: Advancing hydrologic science through synthesis , Speaker: Prof Murugesu Sivapalan

• CWR Seminar [06/08/2008] - Constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment in Western Australia, Speaker: Dr Stewart Dallas

• CWR Seminar [30/07/2008] - If Orchid Mycorrhizal Fungi are so specific, how do natural hybrids cope?, Speaker: Dr Penny Hollick

• CWR Seminar [23/07/2008] - Physical Limnology: A Review, Speaker: Prof Jorg Imberger

• CWR Seminar [16/07/2008] - Holmboe's Instability, Speaker: Prof Gregory Lawrence

• CWR Seminar [09/07/2008] - Large-scale dynamics of Lake Victoria and their impact on mass exchange with Winam Gulf , Speaker: Mauricio Toro Botero

• CWR Seminar [02/07/2008] - Creating disturbances to promote diversity, Speaker: Jason Antenucci

• CWR Seminar [25/06/2008] - IMPACT OF IRRIGATION ON GROUNDWATER RECHAGE-INTEGRATED HYDROLOGICAL MODELLING APPROACH, Speaker: Dr Syed Mahtab Ali

• CWR Seminar [11/06/2008] - Connections between organism bio-molecular composition, elemental stoichiometry and growth. , Speaker: Dr Andrea Paparini

• CWR Seminar [04/06/2008] - LITTLE PENGUINS, LARGE BOATS and COASTAL DEVELOPMENT: A STORY OF COEXISTENCE?, Speaker: Dr Belinda Cannell

• CWR Seminar [28/05/2008] - Towards a self-learning environmental observing system for water quality research and management, Speaker: Matt Hipsey

• Postgraduate Research Proposal [27/05/2008] - Impacts of hurricane passage on CO2 fluxes and primary production in ocean surface layers, Speaker: Peisheng Huang

• CWR Seminar [21/05/2008] - Emerging complexities in the recovery of Canadian Shield lakes from historical acid deposition, Speaker: Professor Norman Yan

• CWR Seminar [14/05/2008] - Some Reflections on the Planetary Crisis, Speaker: Dr Malcolm Hollick

• CWR Seminar [07/05/2008] - Numerical Solution of Convection-Dominated Convection-Diffusion Equations, Speaker: Professor Song Wang

• Seminar [30/04/2008] - The International Wheat genome Sequencing Consortium, Speaker: Professor Rudi Appels

• CWR Seminar [23/04/2008] - Oxygen declines in the interior waters of the Subarctic Pacific, Speaker: Professor Frank Whitney

• CWR Special Research Seminar [15/04/2008] - Dynamical seasonal forecasting of Great Barrier Reef coral bleaching, Speaker: Dr Claire Spillman

• CWR Seminar [09/04/2008] - Three dimensional modeling approaches to water quality and fisheries issues in the Laurentian Great Lakes, Speaker: Dr Ralph Smith & Dr Luis Leon

• CWR Seminar [02/04/2008] - Simulation of the hydrodynamics and water quality on Zihuatanejo Bay in Mexico, Speaker: Dr Isabel Ramirez

• CWR Special Research Seminar [31/03/2008] - Surface wave processes in marine boundary layers, Speaker: Professor Ken Melville

• CWR Special Research Seminar [31/03/2008] - PhD Thesis Defence: Application of modal analysis to strongly stratified lakes, Speaker: Kenji Shimizu

• CWR Seminar [26/03/2008] - A bloom out of the blue: cyanobacterial evolution, physiology and toxigenicity, Speaker: Dr Francesco Pomati

• CWR Seminar [19/03/2008] - The Uruguayan Paper mill on the Uruguay River and the Hydraulic River Regime, Speaker: Dr Gabriel Raggio

• CWR Seminar [12/03/2008] - Near field flow characteristics of a hypersaline brine generated by a desalination plant, Speaker: Dr Clelia Marti

• CWR Seminar [05/03/2008] - Current and future directions for the modeling of fish and their aquatic environments, Speaker: Dr Brian Kennedy

• CWR Seminar [27/02/2008] - Wave propagation in granular materials and the weird booming of dunes, Speaker: Professor Chris Brennen

• CWR Seminar [20/02/2008] - Linking bio-molecular measurements to elemental stoichiometry in aquatic pools: from nutrients' cycles to cellular physiology, Speaker: Dr Andrea Paparini

• CWR Seminar [30/01/2008] - Satellite-derived measures of leaf area reflect annual variation in rainfall across southwest Western Australia , Speaker: Dr Richard Waring

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